Show i j This Week Neck in Defense j I i- i of The president created b executive tive order a seven member supply and allocation board with nith Vice President Wallace as chaIrman and Donald M formerly purchase director as executive director The board will fix priorities and allocate sup supply supply supply ply of ma materials rials fuel power pOTer and other ther commodities of all kinds to meet the demands of the ar arm armand and navy the defense aid pro program program program gram the policies of economic warfare and the needs of the civilian population Members of the board are Directors Knudsen and Hillman Hinman War and andI Navy Secretaries Stimson and I Knox Price Administrator Hen HenI Henderson Henderson Henderson I derson and Lend Leas Lease Supervisor Hopkins I Under the order the office of price administration and civilian supply becomes the office of price administration and a supply division Is created In the to protect the t c interests Intel ests of ot consumers Both will Bill be headed by Leon Hen Hen- Henderson Hen Hen-derson deIS derson n who ho was as administrator The order also transferred Edward R S from his post as t director to that of lend lease administrator and appointed Mr Nelson as priori priorities priorities priorities ties director Aid to Britain China Cluna Russia The Tile pr announced a mili tary Lary mission will Ill gO so to China to I study the need of China for eqUIp eqUIpment equipment equipment ment and ma materials and expedIte lend lease aid State Secretary Hull Hullsta states sta Q the U S SUl will Ul maintain the policy of freedom of the s Seas as In shipping supplies to Russia Ma tra Ia the Pacific The president told hIS press conference an organized cam of rumors distortions half truths and regarding mISuses of lend lease funds had been laun hed het to sabotage the pro piO program program gram of aid to opponents of the Axis JS Agriculture to delis dell deliveries eries of materials necessary for the pro piO I of parts for the repair ana maint nance of farm equIpment and manufacture of new ne anal fawn fann equi ment The president vetoed a bill to withhold lorn om the normal channels of trade govern go ment merit owned o cotton and bea be because because Cause in times such as th se no noone noone noone I one can foresee ho hov v soon these stocks may be needed I Army The war var department announced I creation of a third p bat I and a fifth armored divi I Sian Jon aon The army also aiso am need Its regulatIons to permit d of enlisted d men to accept navy commISSions corn com missions when the navy nary so des res Air Artemus Altemus L Gates of ew lew ew York YOlk o yO Wo Id liar ai navy filer flier as was ap I pc Assistant AsSI secretary of Navy y for lor Aeronautics Twenty enty eIght ne nes army air units were ere formed fanned including 26 chool school squad I runs rens of men each eich The army air forces begin began tests of the P latest of a series giving excellent p abroad and sent Gen Brett chief of air to Africa ind and the Mediterranean area WIth a mission n to stud planes m inaction action and needs of the British Defense p The army announced it will 1111 test tl tI r p air defense ard and air warning system of the rn rn U S Sm Sin Sin m in maneuvers October 9 to 16 Ap cIVIlians 43 volunteer r cIVIl Sans ians participate in m the system m will Bill particIpate 4 preliminary report of the mis mission lion Slon sent to England by the office of civilian defense re d fingerprint ng of every e ery U S fOI atlon ahon of casualties and that necessary rece sary civilian Defense per onnel including and fire n firer ren be exempt e from m litany er Ice OCD Dire tor reported e a returns on the alumni tm Lm collection campa s snowed led JO I 14 cos 0 oo 0 pound pounds of scrap yielding pounds of aluminum or i enough h for 2800 fighting ha been collected collated Prices A A Price a tOI El 11 Elli tt s geest d isomer vomer lome can help ElI I herk p n rl es by bv w wilt ut ng U tie e rime administrations administration s consumer dl di I in W Washington of urea umea I I s noble advances ances n costs of lIv by livin nine bv by consulting and county fats to see e w hett whether hett-er hett cr s sare sare sare I are justified buying tl ti is winters v s sc o c il al now lap map d rises m in rents to state tate and local housing en aen I 1 i s biting bu lensa dc-lensa bonds in inte te te d a of n 11 cars ears re v thins shiny hin ma mi hines or other house 1 Id The off cc co of I 1 rice a in m tI ton set u minces on or u hair Led Lcd i ii 11 a rn on ET r goods di ill nil alt es olle an con COI bed thus broadcloth thus c v vp ve vP p e n- n alm t t all t x lies required f fr omens v s dresses Iren s shirts m I n len leis ar coat and suit linings er I 1 r ets sheeting and other items of cotton and rayon ravon f on of Mate Male lah ted b c cle and furni I t i re mom mai of to conserve ma t mat vials bv by simplify n ni models rig and I d s1 l i u s eliminating brass chrome I I u II het 1111 rain J rand r and c a finishes I 1 Ito itC side wall viall all tues hies and using I I rubb-iT rubb alai hl cd d ad cf of raw ra rubber T e division of consumer supply id ton consumers to take special r T T r ff of t then hu th ii cars c t down dawn on of ol tires bas as and 01 m I and offered ache a the che k list to ud Id ii f in conservation Inaugurated a program to salvage steel from publicly owned o street streetcar streetcar streetcar car rails Thear The war ar department re reported reported por ported d It had bad found recapped and ded auto tires gave gale 80 per c nt of the sen service scribe ice of new tires and cost 60 per cen IE less SS Doctor Doctors Dentists r ur cs Federal Security Administrator Mc announced an agency will ill willbe willbe be set UD ma to mobilize physicians and dentists to meet meet- special de demands demands mands for fer medical c ire arising from the defense program Plans will ill take Into account tIon of doctors and dentists In relation to population training and ex and Weir theil availability I for ervice Red Cross headquarters and the OCD announced plans to tram train volunteers as nurses aides with Ith the help of local ho has hospitals petals Volunteers must be between 18 and 50 graduates of high school physically able they will be select selected selected selected ed b bv local public health and nurs nursling nursIng nursing ling Ing groups and serve as assistants to graduate nurses nurs s in hospitals l without pay for 80 hours of l awe lve training over a seven week leek period Selective e Service Sen er erIce ice Headquarters directed local dJ aft boards to speed arrangements for aiding in the reemployment of soldIers the arm is planning to release beginning September 1 by gett ng in touch with former emlo em lo lovers loers ers or finding other jobs for forthe forth the tho soldiers In III the first fast case of Its kind a discharged from New Nelv York was returned to his former job af after r the local U V S attorn requested his fu film m to tale tal hum back for fer at least one vear ear al although although although though U tl tie e a firm said his job had been abolished while hIle helas he was las gone Orl Gasoline President Roose Roosevelt Rooseselt elt told hIS press ence the launching of man oil tankers already out 01 on tl e eways eways eways ways and the operation of t tto 0 pipelines from the south southwest I est to the eastern seaboard will ill materially I eliee elie e the gasoline shortage in inthe inthe inthe the east b next spring Price Ad Henderson Issued a table Lable of fair maximum retaIl prices for regular g ol ne in m 40 maJor cities and the senate be began began began gan an all m im of the short shortage shortage shortage age Acting Oil Coordinator Davies Danes said aid s nister and planned sabot sabotage sabotage sabotage age may lie behind the multiplier ty of misinformation that is 15 really no New Plants and Tie The government go contracted for fOI forthe the folio ving new nev plants Pig lion Cleveland 11 Warren Orno Gino and Burningham Ala 58 ordnance facilities Chat a Tenn and St Louis Mo airplanes and spare parts Buffalo N Y Unemployment from Shortages 1 labor division began sur ses of 20 communities in 10 states in m which consumer goods plants are threatened with curtaIl mont nt of supplies because of ot de defenS Tense fenS needs Defense contracts will willbe willbe 1 be a awarded larded carded where here necessary to al 1 labor The first such Uch ich contract was a awarded to II a Manitowoc Wis com company pam with mth 4 em employees loj ees facing 1 be ause anse of aluminum priorities nl I |